Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Move some low-hanging fruit from posix.scm to file.scm

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi,

On Wed, 14 Jun 2017 16:23:29 -0400 John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 4:14 PM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     What should we do with ##sys#glob->regex? I think it's useful
>     enough to expose to the user, which conveniently allows us to get
>     rid of the ##sys# prefix too. But in which unit does it belong
>     the most? Personally, I think file might make more sense, as
>     it's strictly not an irregex procedure, and it belongs with
>     "glob".
>     
>     On the other hand, it doesn't actually hit the file system; it's
>     an abstract operation over data-structures only, without any side
>     effects.
>
> The same is true of the pathname-* procedures. glob->regex should be
> exposed, and it belongs with them.
>
> IMO, canonical-path belongs in files also; it too is an abstract
> operation, though system-dependent.

canonical-path was removed in 4.6.0.  Maybe you mean normalize-pathname?

All the best.
Mario
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